Evan Kirstel B2B TechFluencer

Create📝Publish🗞️Amplify📣 TechInfluencer, Analyst, Content Creator w/600K Social Media followers, Deep Expertise in Enterprise 💻 Cloud ☁️5G 📡AI 🤖Telecom ☎️ CX 🔑 Cyber 🏥 DigitalHealth. TwitterX @evankirstel

B2B Social Media Maven | Tech Industry Storyteller | Trusted Partner for Global Tech Brands | TV Host | Podcaster | Livestreamer | Blogger | Industry Analyst 

With over three decades in tech, I've mastered the art of transforming social media into a dynamic platform for audience engagement, community building, and thought leadership. My focus? Not personal brand promotion—but delivering educational, authoritative, and thought-provoking content to cultivate sustainable, long-term business growth. 

I am host on a TV show called TechImpact appearing on FOXBusiness and Bloomberg which has a reach millions of viewers. 

From Enterprise IT to AI, UCaaS, CPaaS, Cybersecurity, 5G, and Digital Health, my expertise spans the tech landscape. As a leading content creator, I bring unparalleled insights into the Future of Work, Unified Communications, Collaboration, and Customer Experience , producing impactful narratives that resonate with key decision-makers worldwide. Let’s turn your ideas into stories that captivate and engage audiences while delivering eye-popping ROI.

Social Reach: 600K+ followers across LinkedIn (60K), Twitter (380K), YouTube (110K), Meta platforms (120K), and beyond. Livestreaming, blogs, Newsletter (20K) and podcasts that reach millions globally.  My personal network includes CIOs, CMOs, analysts, media, and key tech industry leaders. 

By leveraging our proven B2B Influencer Marketing methodology, I place your brand at the forefront of decision-makers' minds, ensuring you're the partner of choice when investment and purchasing decisions arise.

Our approach prioritizes Awareness, Education, and Engagement by delivering high-value content that reaches and influences millions globally. Unique stories and narratives position your brand as a trusted leader.  Informative, jargon-free messaging educates decision-makers about your value proposition.  Blogs, videos, podcasts, and live-streams inspire clicks, likes, shares, and meaningful leads.  

I’ve built impactful, long-term partnerships with industry leaders like Palo Alto Networks, Intel, T-Mobile, Microsoft, Cisco, AMD, AT&T, and Broadcom. These collaborations deliver consistent results in reach, thought leadership, and measurable engagement, all while driving growth at a fraction of the cost of traditional marketing.

We work collaboratively with your teams, agencies, and stakeholders to develop, produce, publish, promote, and amplify your content. Whether for evergreen campaigns or point-in-time initiatives, our strategies are built to scale globally

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Forbes Business Council Is An Invitation-Only Organization For Successful Small And Mid-Sized Business Owners. I look forward to contributing content to Forbes.com!

Evan Kirstel

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell’s voice barely carried across a single room. Less than forty years later, it crossed a continent.

For decades, the telephone was a local novelty. You could call across town, or perhaps a neighboring city on a clear day, but beyond fifty miles, voices dissolved into static. The sheer scale of the American landscape swallowed signals whole. At the time, many experts believed a coast-to-coast conversation was a physical impossibility—the laws of physics simply wouldn't allow a voice to survive the journey.

Bell engineers refused to accept the limit.
They launched one of the most ambitious infrastructure projects in history, planting 130,000 telephone poles across mountain ranges, deserts, and plains. The turning point was a breakthrough in electronics: the vacuum tube repeater. These early amplifiers boosted weakening signals every few dozen miles, creating a seamless relay from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It was the first time electronics were deployed at a massive scale to conquer distance.

On January 25, 1915, Bell sat at a mahogany desk in New York City. His longtime assistant, Thomas Watson, waited in San Francisco—over 3,400 miles away.

Bell picked up the receiver and echoed the words that started it all:

“Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
Watson’s voice came back crystal clear, followed by a laugh:

“It would take me a week now.”

For nearly an hour, they spoke about the weather and their early experiments, proving that the "hard wall" of distance had been breached. Even President Woodrow Wilson joined the line, hailing it as a milestone for national unity. The silence between the oceans was finally broken.

Every time I revisit this story, the arc feels familiar. A new technology hits a ceiling. Experts declare it can’t scale. Engineers rethink the infrastructure, introduce a new component, and push through the impossible.

Today, we’re watching that same leap unfold.

We’ve moved from copper wires to direct-to-mobile satellite connections. Everyday smartphones can now bypass cell towers entirely, bouncing signals from orbit to reach remote oceans, disaster zones, and "dead zones" that traditional networks could never touch.

I often wonder what Bell would think. The man who marveled at a voice traveling over copper would now see signals traveling hundreds of miles into space and back down to a device in a pocket.

As we head toward Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, that long arc of connectivity feels more alive than ever. From satellite-to-phone services and 6G research to AI-driven edge computing, the spirit of 1915 is still driving the industry.

Different tools. Same drive to erase distance. It leaves us with questions to ponder heading into MWC:

10 years from now, which "impossible" connection we’re debating today will feel as ordinary as a phone call across the street?

See you at #MWC #MWC26 #MWCbarcelona!

Evan  Kirstel

TechInfluencer, Analyst, Creator w/600K Social Media followers, Deep Expertise in Enterprise 💻 Cloud ☁️5G 📡AI 🤖Telecom ☎️ CX 🔑 Cyber 🏥 DigitalHealth. TwitterX @evankirstel. Lets meet at MWC26, RSAC, HIMSS, more!

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I used to borrow my roommate’s Apple Macintosh because I couldn’t afford my own. It had launched on this day in history: January 24, 1984 and what felt delightful wasn’t what it could do, but how it felt. The elegance. The intentionality. It felt designed, not merely assembled.

In those days, computers were all boring boxes. They were loud, sharp-edged, and unforgiving—objects you approached with caution. Then there was the Macintosh. Compact. Friendly. Almost disarming. It didn't feel like a machine you operated; it felt like an invitation.

The experience matched the form. Instead of cryptic commands, there were images. Instead of memorized keystrokes, there was a pointer. Files behaved like real objects. I could move things, make mistakes, and recover without fear. 

That’s when it clicked. This wasn’t about features. Apple had changed the rules. Technology no longer demanded that humans adapt to it; the interface finally respected how people actually see, think, and learn. Design wasn't the decoration—it was the breakthrough.

The ripple effects were immediate. Desktop publishing took off. Designers and writers showed up. Tools once locked inside bigger businesses were suddenly in the hands of small businesses. Personal computing became personal in the truest sense.

That same philosophy still runs through everything we touch today—smartphones, SaaS platforms, and cloud dashboards. Even modern AI tools follow a "Macintosh Law": Hide complexity. Reduce friction. Make the user feel capable.

As we move into the era of autonomous systems and agentic AI, the lesson is more relevant than ever. Raw intelligence doesn’t create trust. Elegance does. Clarity does. Good design still does the heavy lifting.

And yes, a full-circle moment: I still have a Macintosh today. (See the picture in the comment.)

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Functional Analyst - LATAM - (Presales)

XmarteK

Developing U.S.A, Caribbean, Central and South America Market in Unified communications solutions On Premise and SaaS.
Create client demos/ presentations, quotes/ proposals, and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs)
Work strategically with management to deliver forecasts, identify trending opportunities/challenges, and provide recommended solutions

Business Development Manager

Brother International Corporation

	Work with local suppliers to find and obtain projects, proposals and documentation for bids (RFI / RFP).
	Training in technical specifications of products and solutions of the company and align different distribution players in market (distributors, direct accounts, global customers, etc.) and resolve conflict among them (pricing, product calendar, customer service, etc.)
	Drive overall business development for the distributor business, including legal, tax, and commercial aspects with the support of the corporate office. Manage integration projects across the territory
	Drive monthly revenue targets by category and ensure that distributors have the tools to achieve them (product, training, marketing, etc)
	Fully understand market dynamics of the respective territory: Economy, customers, consumers, competitors, market trends, etc.
	Supervise execution of yearly and seasonal marketing plans including PR, POP, advertising, and sports marketing.
	Manage seasonal launches and their respective demand creation efforts. Ensure distributors get all the tools available from the Marketing department and participate in the respective processes (i.e. samples, POP, displays, and catalogs, etc.).
	Team up with Sales Operations, Finance and other back office departments to ensure that product delivery is up to standards and that the distributor business gets appropriate support and follows all the existing controls (backorders/allocation, credit holds, product information).
	Travel to each market to assess current status, maintain performance levels and identify areas for improvement.
	Participate in the organization of sales meetings, training sessions, and special events
	Host international visitors (reps, accounts, etc)

Sales Representative (Colombia & Ecuador)

DENTIX

Advanced systems and infrastructure service improvement projects such as: MPLS, PQRs, Staging and Optimization of Infrastructure Servers, Networking and IT. Manage providers and optimize implementation costs for new clinics. Reduced the cost of telephony services and at the same time optimized its cost and operation.

Chief IT

Brightstar

IT infrastructure and security management of Brightstar companies in Colombia, oriented towards ITIL Foundation V3 and PMP guidelines, Capex / Opex design and management, supplier management, procurement and procurement, design and management of projects within the area, strategic planning, optimization of resources and positive leadership.

Infrastructure and Security Administrator

Management of MPLS network, Firewall, creation and management of Network projects, ServiceDesk, Backup, and Infrastructure monitoring, as well as creation of virtualized architecture for services in Test and Development

Infrastructure and Communications Coordinator

Infrastructure Monitoring with SLAs for Multinationals.
Global Crossing NOC Level 1 & 2 Support
Management of Networking Projects (WLAN, LAN) and VoIP
Creation of Help Desk 7X24

C.A.C. Coordinator 

In my career as a Systems Engineer, I have to develop different skills to achieve my goals create successful business relationships. My work has focused on aligning company`s IT infrastructure with their specific requirements, plans and goals and seeking the participation of the company in doing so.

Some of the key skills I have developed relate to:
 Administrative and commercial management
 Telecommunications (Radio links, WiFi, WiMax) and network (switch & router) services and others services such as VoIP (IP-PBX -3CX-Asterisk-, Call Centres) and structured cabling (5e, 6a, 7, fiber optics).
 IT Security management (firewall, penetration test, vulnerability and solution report, McAfee EPO and UTM).
 Infrastructure management (SaaS, Services, Servers, Data Centres, under ITIL compliance).

I also have experience in the administration of:
 Workplace teams (more than 10 people)
 Suppliers (RFP, contracts, SLA's, credit notes)
 Budgets (planning and execution of CAPEX and OPEX)
 Projects (IT and business support in the development of our or client infrastructure)
 Documentation and policy creation (support, IT security, IT governance, portfolio of Services, OLA, network architectures, services and servers).

Finally, I have developed sales functions expand the universally recognised Brother (Printing & Scanning products) market, increasing the quality and quantity of resellers and retailers in both Colombia and Ecuador, improving brand recognition and doing commercial training; assisting in the organizing of events and working to achieve different business objectives.

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